Leaving Gee's Bend
By: Irene Latham.
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780399251795
Subjects: Quilting -- Fiction; Quilts -- Fiction; African Americans -- Fiction; Alabama -- History -- 1819-1950 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Ludelphia Bennett, a determined, ten-year-old African American girl in 1932 Gee's Bend, Alabama, leaves home in an effort to find medical help for her sick mother, and she recounts her ensuing adventures in a quilt she is making.